Friday Night Open Thread

– Tom Schaller has a post at FiveThirtyEight comparing the 1994 midterm election with the 2010 midterm election. This chart tells a very interesting story:

It seems hard to fathom that only 16 years ago the South had a higher percentage of Democrats than the Northeast.

– I’ve started watching the recent National Geographic series on the drug war, Drugs Inc. The first episode was about cocaine. It’s a timely topic since this week marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Plan Colombia. The Drug War Chronicle discusses the successes and failures of our attempts to stop the flow of cocaine from Colombia. We’ve managed to weaken organizations like FARC that have long profited from the trade, but the overall amount of cocaine coming from that part of the world remains unchanged.

“Former Republican Rep. Scott McInnis is losing support among fellow Republicans in the race for Colorado governor in the wake of stories that he had plagiarized a series of policy papers he had been paid to do by the foundation of a prominent GOP family, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted July 15 for the Denver Post.”

What’s really interesting about this chart is that 16 years ago the percentage of Democratic representation was almost uniform across the country, ranging from 58% in the Northeast to 59.9% in the South. Now, the Northeast is 82% Democrat and the South is 43% Democrat. Looks like a reverse migration is taking place — all the KKK types are going back to their roots!

Those numbers really are quite telling. We should have let the South go, way back when. Without the South, this would be a very progressive nation, true to its constitutional roots. I would propose that we let the South now have its own nation. No federal dollars headed its way. Let’s see how it would do. I have several friends who live here now from the South. Young friends. They say it hasn’t changed so much. Racist still. The smart ones leave.

@4 I think it’s an indication that there’s much more of a national perspective in Congressional races these days. People in Alabama will vote against local Democrats because of their opinion of Nancy Pelosi and people in California will vote against their local Republicans because of their disdain for the radicalism of southern Republicans.

In the past, I think nationwide political parties were much more capable of fielding diverse candidates across the country, but the internet has changed the game somewhat. Democrats in places like Alabama now have to prove that they’re different from those pot-smoking, gay-marriage-supporting Democrats on the west coast, and Republicans here have to prove that they’re not the immigrant-hating, anti-choice radicals like in the south.

“Marijuana/cannibis isn’t illegal because we need protection from it. It’s illegal because many forces within the state need it to craft a growing, authoritarian, moralistic, anti-constitutional police state. If cannabis had never existed it would be something else.

Marijuana is not the End which necessitates the Means of an aggressive police state. It is the Means by which the End of the aggressive police state is created, justified and maintained.”

I don’t know where that quote is from, but it seems pretty damned accurate to me. The “conservatives” are all about law and order. But its all politics. They make big noises about getting criminals off the streets, but then do everything they can to create the widest possible definition of the term. The most obvious purpose being to insure a massive herd of cash sheep for them to loot at will, without any scrutiny as to the purposes of the monies being spent. The primary targets being social minorities, and the poorest economic sectors of society.

They exploit the system as much as possible to extract as much money as they can from it. All paid for by the taxpayers. Rationalized through their political gamesmanship. Law and order above everything else. All just to make huge sums of money, and gain levels of political power to guarantee that the source of that cash flow remains ever increasing in size and scope.

The incarceration industry is the second largest lobbying industry in Congress, spending nearly $470 million a year lobbying State legislatures and the US Congress to increase prison sentences for petty crimes such as marijuana possession.

These companies then turn around and hard sell their products to law enforcement agencies all over the world. Thats firearms, tasers, bullet proof vests, handcuffs, belts, badges, uniforms, specialized vehicles and forensic equipment.

It is a gigantic multi-national industry, worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

The police can search your house without ever even entering it, using infrared cameras. They can run a drug sniffing dog around your property without entering the buildings and that is considered a legitimate way for them to justify probable cause for a search warrant. This has already been ruled on by the US Supreme Court.

This is the Conservatives paradise. An ever increasing level of militarized law enforcement, and a behemoth of a economic/industrial complex surrounding it. With a huge political system in place for maintaining it at any and all costs. As long as it gets them elected, and keeps their friends in the industry happy and contributing to the next campaign cycle.

Welcome to the purest form of religious capitalism. Stay in line, citizen.

Since when has it become racist to point out racism in America? That’s where this country finds itself, as many purporting to want a color-blind nation refuse to admit that not everyone shares their dream.

ST. LOUIS | Downtown this morning to commemorate the opening of a new drug court for veterans, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill dropped the gavel on state Republicans, judging them “hypocrites” for opposition to stimulus funding.

“The leaders in Jefferson City, the Republican leaders in Jeff City, balanced the budget with stimulus money. And then they have the nerve to stand up, as classic hypocrites, and say how evil the stimulus is,” McCaskill said. “They didn’t balance the budget with Missouri tax dollars over the last two years. They balanced the budget with federal stimulus money.”

Republicans here have to prove that they’re not the immigrant-hating, anti-choice radicals like in the south.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anti-choice? What choice? Kiling your future progeny is a choice? Telling kindergarten children it’s okay if your gay is a choice? Golly a whole bunch of future windies and gmen? Oh no!

Immigrant-hating? Implementing all ready approved federal law is hating? Since most HA Libtardo HAVE NOT READ the Arizona law you take another’s word for it. The Arizona law is much tamer than the Prince William County, VA. and not one racial profiling case has been brought by your American Criminal Liars Union since the law went into effect in 2008. They threatened but it was all hot air! Why? When the PWC Sheriff catches a criminal performing all the major serious felony crimes they check the illegal immigration status of whitey just like everyone else. BTW illegal crime is way down in Prince William. So are anchor babies in PWC hospitals. You can compare crime stats in the surrounding counties vs. PWC. Remember the dopey dumb bunny’s favorite county, Stafford, is right next door. But has Lee checked it out. Nope he puts some dopey link on the blog to “justify” his position.

Since it costs $10Billion a year to Californians to support anchor babies and other illegal activities in CA, you can see where the money goes. And you continue to smile as the wallet is emptied.

Check with the arschloch… it’s in his personal home version of the HA database. Good job creating an issue when none exists Lee. It’s the progressive way!

Puddy read Dave Weigel’s worthless article. Not once is there the correct comparison of if the KKK held a night stick in front of a voter polling place what would be the consequences? It would be in every slobbering libtardo MSM newscast. It would be front and center on Goldy’s blog. The arschloch would be working overtime capturing threads for his personal home copy of the HA blog. No where does Weigel mention the courts gave a summary judgment against the NBPP defandants to the Justice Department and the Justice Department then decides to drop the case. Instead Wieigel attacks Megyn Kelly over the NBPP’s own words of killing cracka babies.

BTW Lee, this wasn’t the first time it happened. Watch “WE Will Not Be Silenced”

“I got out of my car and there was this lady, probably about 80 years old, who was slowly walking up the street. As she was approaching the entranceway to go into the building, one of the young men called to her ‘If you’re not voting for Obama, go home, because you’re not voting here today.’ She turned and walked away. The pain that I felt, because of the people who have fought for African Americans to have the right to vote, this fight that has gone on for many, many, many years and to see two African American young men deny the right, under the veiled threat of violence, to a woman who looked to be around 80 years old, and not allow her an opportunity to vote. I felt appalled. While I was standing there, there were other people approaching, maybe four or five, and when they heard that they all turned and walked away.””

@13Immigrant-hating? Implementing all ready approved federal law is hating?

Well yes, if the current federal law is set up in a way to make it impossible for immigrants to come here legally to do the kinds of jobs that our economy has right now.

There are two sides to the debate. Let the people come here legally to work – or round them all up and send them home. The immigrant-hating position should be pretty obvious. The correct position is to provide amnesty to the folks who are here working, even if they’re illegal. Nearly all of them are doing it because they have no legal avenue to be here but there’s simply no economic alternative in their home countries.

The problem with that statement is, not everyone wants to make a baby. Not everyone is capable of taking care of that offspring as it grows. I doubt even you would dispute that. Why enforce reproduction on people who don’t want it? There is already a huge surplus of unwanted children, spending their entire lives in foster care or institutions until they do something that allows the State to imprison them at an even greater cost to taxpayers and their Governments. Is it really that important to maintain such a huge socioeconomic burden on the human social system?

Noodles knows, before abortion and birth control methods were technologically feasible and legal, there were thousands of unparented, unwanted kids running around in the streets. Until the middle of the last century, London, Paris, Amsterdam, New York City, San Fransisco, Boston and Moscow were all famous for their street urchins. Poems and whole genres of fiction were dedicated to this notion. In modern times, there are cities in India, Thailand, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and all over the African continent and eastern Europe that have this problem. If every life is so precious, how are you going to make sure those children are adequately fed, housed, clothed and educated?

Right now, the world is already massively overpopulated with the total population approaching eight billion souls. The human race now has at least four times the population the planet can safely support for any extended length of time. There just isn’t enough room, or enough arable land to sustain the food supply to support this.

Population pressures and resulting competition for food and basic living space are the major source for wars, crimes and poverty, resulting in the necessity for dilution of resources such as foodstuffs and education and housing. That just creates a stripmining effect on the basic resources for feeding, housing and clothing all those people. Bulldoze forests for building housing and to make room for agriculture, cover already available arable lands with houses and apartments and stores, further reducing the land surface available for agriculture by building on it, and then cutting down more forest to make room for the resulting increases in population.

Its a terrible, totally unsustainable cycle and will utterly collapse as soon as there is no more room for expansion and the resources run out.

The land ends up stripped of fertility and becomes desert. That necessitates further migration to more fertile lands to maintain the food supply. The Gobi desert in eastern China is solid, absolute proof of this.

We MUST figure out a way to reduce and limit the human population. Asking for volunteers to limit their own reproduction is the only moral way to do so and any available tool including abortion is acceptable. The alternative being massive, incredibly destructive wars, famines and diseases that entire cultures and populations often do not survive. History has proven this over and over again.

Telling kindergarten children it’s okay if your gay is a choice? Golly a whole bunch of future windies and gmen? Oh no!

What the FUCK is a “windy”? And since when do we have kindergarten classes doing anything but teaching the very basics of reading, writing and social interaction? Maybe your kindergarten teacher told you such things (which would explain a lot), but I don’t know anyone else that had this taught to them at that age. The reality is, young people need to be taught that because someone is “different” doesn’t make them necessarily a bad person, which seems to be the founding principle of most dogmatic belief systems.

Basic social skills are extremely important, teaching exclusion and encouraging prejudice does not serve the need to develop a peaceful modern society.

As usual, you’re just making shit up to further your own excuses to maintain your phony outrage. Typical tealiban. Theres just not enough outrageous shit in the world to piss you off, so you invent new shit to rationalize your antisocial personality traits. I guess thats how religion has always been so successful.

Lee re 17. Dave Weigel, last I heard, was a free market advocate and the freer the market is the more progress people have made generally speaking. Point of fact though is we do not have a free market.

@12 Good stuff from TNC. I’ve been reluctant to wade into that debate, but Weigel’s reflexive defense of the Tea Partiers brings up a recurring theme that Balloon Juice hammers on a lot as well. The Reason folks (Weigel was a former Reason editor) have a very strong tendency to try to claim that the Tea Party folks are their ideological brothers and sisters. But they’re not. The Reason folks are motivated by small government and an opposition to all forms of socialism. The Tea Party folks are not. They may hold up signs that say that they are, but the root of their opposition is not to small government, it’s to multiculturalism. And because they see multiculturalism as a burden on society, they become anti-government only through that initial motivation.

That’s why they sound like the folks at Reason when they talk about reducing welfare and other entitlements, not because they’re small government champions like them, but because they see those things as ways that “the others” in our multicultural society are draining their own wallets. But when it comes to things like immigration, building prisons, or the drug war, or their own Medicare and Social Security, government is awesome again. The Tea Party message is completely incoherent in that respect, and it’s always been that way. But the folks at Reason, perhaps in a desire to make their own philosophies seem far more popular, stay blind to that incoherence and continue to embrace the coincidental similarities.

Police responded early Friday to a call of shots fired at a home in Roberts and found a man apparently hallucinating an attack by clowns.

The 40-year-old man, armed with a shotgun, had fired several shots in his mother’s home. It also appeared that he fired a shot at his mother and visiting father as they fled from the home in a vehicle, said St. Croix County Sheriff Dennis Hillstead.http://www.twincities.com/ci_1.....ck_check=1

Lee– Once again you resort to childishness which means you lose the argument! I guess I’ve really gotten under your skin. You are convicted…like all rootless Atheist Progressives ultimately are.

And as for the Progressive Movement?

Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16.

The Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Balance of Power projection shows Democrats with a projected 49 – 42 advantage with nine states listed in the Toss-Up category.

This 2010 Election Cycle is going to be awesome with all these Toss-ups. Same with 2012. But you KLOWNS are true believers in your Socialist Movement. Good thing most REAL Americans are not.

Yet another COSTLY example of Gregoire’s incompetence. The list of failures like this is endless. Seems like the Progressives are comfortable with the vicious deaths of innocent children as they remain quiet every time some settlement like this happens…then they gleefully support tax increases framed as FOR THE CHILDREN!

By Jill Kimball

Seattle Times staff reporter

The state on Friday agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the father of a 3-year-old boy who was beaten to death by his stepfather despite complaints to Child Protective Services.

The boy’s father, Michael Ravenell, claimed in the lawsuit that Child Protective Services failed to follow up on his warnings that the child was in danger.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....aud17.html WASHINGTON — The Justice Department stepped up its crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid cheats on Friday, announcing charges against 94 people in what authorities called the largest health-care fraud sting in U.S. history.

KANSAS CITY, MO) – Over 2,000 NAACP delegates this week unanimously passed a resolution—as amended— called “The Tea Party Movement,” asking for the repudiation of racist Tea Party leaders.

“We take no issue with the Tea Party movement. We believe in freedom of assembly and people raising their voices in a democracy. What we take issue with is the Tea Party’s continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements. The time has come for them to accept the responsibility that comes with influence and make clear there is no place for racism & anti-Semitism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry in their movement,” stated NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous.http://milwaukeecourieronline......amendment/

Don’t listen to the NAACP Tea Baggers! The NAANCP are a bunch of fake Americans!

Over the weekend I took the most comment-prolific 81 handles, grouped the contained aliases under a single tag (e.g. all of Puddybud’s various handles under the tag “junkshot”) and categorized the tag as troll or non-troll.

Weekend? This is your full-time job, zero-time dad, living on HA while Mom earns money to put food on the table and pay the rent!

its bad enough that a black kid calls 911 with a fake call to set up police, but here’s the rea; shame….., HE USED HIS OWN FUCKING CELL PHONE!!!!!! what a moron, and they were coming from georgetown university, a fine example of the products of our purposely dumbed downed school system. no wonder people like bernie madoff and lloyd blankfein figure they can rip off the goys because they’re all so stupid.

Lee– Once again you resort to childishness which means you lose the argument! I guess I’ve really gotten under your skin. You are convicted…like all rootless Atheist Progressives ultimately are. -snip- This 2010 Election Cycle is going to be awesome with all these Toss-ups. Same with 2012. But you KLOWNS are true believers in your Socialist Movement. Good thing most REAL Americans are not.

Doug Beckham Thanks for nothing Brown!!!!! What a total dissappointment you are! Dudes in the park pulling 3 card monty aint got nothin’ on you!! You fleeced all of New England AND the American people! You are the worst joke pulled on us besides that bafoon Obimbo. If you had 1 ounce of self respedt left, you would resign and hand …your spot in congress over to someone who actually has the courage to not to be a Bama lap puppy.

During the Bush years there were no successful terrorist attacks in the US and dozens were thwarted. On Obama’s watch there have been at least three successful attacks coupled with a significant loss of lives.

There are two sides to the debate. Let the people come here legally to work – or round them all up and send them home.

Did you notice how Lee couched the legally come here to work? THey are ILLEGAL ALIENS! Let people who apply and go thru legal channels and come here legally to work is fine. Some one who oesn’t is an ILLEGAL ALIEN. Mrs Puddy came here through legal channels so Puddy has some skin in this game!

DeadToaddy, if you don’t practice procreation then you can’t procreate. Abstinence works 100% of the time. If you pump the well sometimes the well produces! Stay away from the well and you won’t have the problem. Teach the well the consequences of well probing and all is “well”.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s declaration of the cement-lined channel today as “navigable” is aimed at allowing her agency to enforce Clean Water Act protections throughout the river’s 834-square-mile watershed.

“This designation assures the community that their local waters are protected by the nation’s water laws,” Jackson said in a statement. “A clean, vibrant L.A. River system can help revitalize struggling communities, promoting growth and jobs for residents of Los Angeles. We want the L.A. River to demonstrate how urban waterways across the country can serve as assets in building stronger neighborhoods, attracting new businesses and creating new jobs.”

Environmentalists cheered Jackson’s declaration as key to limiting destruction of the river’s tributaries and wetlands and expanding recreational opportunities for Los Angeles residents. They also said the move shows that Western rivers, despite their propensity to run dry because they are overtapped for irrigation and drinking supplies, deserve full protection under the Clean Water Act.

While we’re on the topic of fixing up the country take a look at this low-tech, 1959, Opel, wonder.

Could you believe that the car above made the 1975 Guiness World Record book? Its claim to fame is getting an amazing 376.59 miles per gallon of gasoline, and that in a 1973 contest sponsored by Shell Oil (now Royal Dutch Shell).http://www.treehugger.com/file.....wn_old.php

See, we can solve the planet’s problems without spending a big wad of cash, but if we do that the stock market and the top couple of % of earners that make their scratch off of the stock market will take it in the teeth. So, oh fuck, we can’t do that! We mustn’t upset the rich folks!

but most interesting to see that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree..

Yep yous a flaming libtardo and li’l arschloch isn’t. Like Puddy sez arschloch, we’ll see if you can afford to send li’l arschloch to UW. First it has to demonstrate a brain, since you are lacking in that department.

BTW arschloch most schools are libtardo. We’ll be watching the li’l arschloch.

A vast stretch of polluted sea remains the next challenge. About 20 boats were trying to clean up a dark brown slick of oil and pollution at least 50 square kilometers (19 square miles) in size off Dalian’s Xingang Harbor, Xinhua said Saturday night.

No, they’re not. They’re all about repressive government. Iran has a conservative regime. The old communists who ran the Soviet Union in the post-Stalin era were conservatives. The Vatican is a conservative organization headed by an authoritarian Pope and conclave of Cardinals that just this week classified the ordination of women along with sexual abuse of children by priests as “grave canonical crimes.” Conservative clerical regimes in Sudan and elsewhere stone women to death for adultery. (In Saudi Arabia, they shoot female adulterers, and behead their male lovers; Saudi Arabia is run by a conservative monarchy.)

Franco was a rightwing conservative. Salazar was a rightwing conservative. Pinochet was a rightwing conservative. And so on. All of these guys were dictators, thugs, and murderers.

Executive summary: Everywhere in the world, where you have conservative regimes in power, the following hings are true:

1) Citizens have no say in how things are run. 2) The people who run things are using state force to cram an ideology or religion down everyone else’s throats. 3) The people who run things are killing ordinary citizens for trivial or nonexistent “offenses” against the ideological or religious “order.”

“Law and order,” as practiced by Republican conservatives, reminds me of a cartoon I saw years ago. Two old guys are sitting on a park bench in New York’s Central Park. Their conversation goes like this:

First Guy: “I miss the old days.” Second Guy: “Me too. There was law and order. No crime, people knew their place, and everyone did as they were told.” First Guy: “(Sigh.) Now the world is chaotic. Everyone does as they please.” Second Guy: “It makes your head spin. Well, I’ve got to go. I’ll see you again tomorrow, Heinie.” First Guy: “Ja, Schulz. Jawohl.”

This fool the arschloch spends all that time on his HA home version database and then claims he’s “coding”. Maybe he’s making a nail the arschloch game. Butt, we who think right play that everyday here!

Rabbit @ 70 Precisely. Today’s “conservatives” don’t have a clue who they are, or what their heritage is. They are a remarkably stupid breed of people. Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck lead them. Yet, our media tells them they are serious people. They are not, of course, serious people. Idiocy, apparently, is a drug for these folks.

@76 I can make a cute fluffy female bunny pregnant simply by willing her pregnant. ESP, or something. There aren’t enough rabbits in the world, and too many get run over by cars, so I make as many rabbits as I can. It’s what Ma Nature designed me for!

Headline: The Moderators don’t care what you think arschloch! You should appear at a DL and you’ll quickly learn. Remember it was one of your kind who called you monomaniacal. That was direct from the fingers of a HA libtardo, ya idiot.

Once again facts and HA libtardos don’t mix. Puddy placed video evidence of additional Odumba jockstrap voter intimidation and nary a peep. Prince William County passes an illegal immigrant law, violent crime drops over 30% and anchor baby births drop to almost 0%, no American Criminal Liars Union lawsuits because the law is fair, and nary a peep from the libtardo morons.

Witness this 2010 election. It’s libtardos who continually remind Puddy and others Odumba is black. Really. Puddy knows from the NBPP Odumba is a cracka baby, so he white too. You don’t see that coming from our side in political commentary except to respond to your side’s attacks.

Remember Steve Steve Steve, Barack The Magic Negro was an invention of a libtardo LA Times black man.

So Steve Steve Steve why do you want a race riot? Why do YOU hate America and want to see riots like 1965-1967?

What a frickin’ head case. This is how he spends his time, morning, day and night, 7 days a week, building a database to track HA users. Of course, who knows if there’s anything in it that’s correct. For all we know he’s cutting and pasting from his imagination.

Oh wow. How stupid are you? Track them? You’re already tracked here in the comment threads. All your comments are date/time stamped for someone like me to ponder over and Goldy has your ip addresses to boot. Is Goldy “tracking” you?

Even junkshot believes in the database. One day I’ll count how many times he’s quivered in fear over it.

Quivered in fear… Whatamoron. You told the world how you were gonna show how Puddy loved porn from your database… Then you kept pleading Puddy to ask you nicely. Fat chance fatASS. Puddy doesn’t respect racists like you North Pasadena moron! So if you have it in your vast database, “bring it” monomanical one!

Hmmm… 214

monomaniacal: “obsessed with a single subject or idea”

Your “database” could the reason you were named!

That word wasn’t used to describe Puddy. It was used to describe the HA arschloch, YOU!

Puddy remembers who called you monomaniacal. It’s in the Puddy archives under arschloch sayings.

Take the test. take the test… Oh it’s fake nevermind. Among others! Been dancing on Mike Webb’s grave lately chronologically challenged one?

“You don’t see that coming from our side in political commentary except to respond to your side’s attacks.”

To hell with you and your lies, you pathetic bitch. You choose to stand with right-wing racists who tolerate your existence only as long as you serve them as a political pawn. And for what? Nothing more than a insignificant tax cut. You sold your soul for thirty pieces of silver, Puddy. End of discussion. You lose again, and in more ways than one.

Puddy– Apparently you are a Double Minority according to the latest Rasmussen Poll–Sunday, July 18, 2010

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16.

The president earns an Approval Index rating of -28 among men and -6 among women. Eighty-five percent (85%) of African-American voters Strongly Approve of Obama’s performance while 52% of White voters Strongly Disapprove.

Heh. C’mon junkshot your right wing peeps are chiding me on my spelling when I point out your kids won’t fight the terraists. They’d rather study making money than making war – well, I can’t say I blame ’em. After all the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree but I digress.

Now you misspell shit all the time and say it’s because you like it that way. You have a bit of a fetish for butt and cum. Is that fair?

And some of your vocab usage – sheesh – even MWS made that error you keep making though by now it’s probably deliberate.

Meaning you are “right”? Heh. Well you are right wing that’s for damn sure and batshit insane – lovin’ torture and sending cannon fodder to wars of choice for which you and your peeps fist pump and cheer while barcalounged in front of Faux News…

Cannon fodder excluding your own of course. Now what’s wrong with that picture?

I think Puddy’s conversation about his dick that he had with his sockpuppet MWS should be posted here every day. At least once a week. If you’ve got other special Puddy moments, then please post those occasionally as well.

If you ever search your database for posts by Puddy’s friends talking about hating “niggers”, keep in mind that they often tried to conceal their hateful words from a later search by using off-spelling, such as “N#gg#rs”.

http://www.rollingstone.com/po.....2697/64833 If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrative assistant who works in the roads and transportation department in Jefferson County, Alabama. Pack got rudely introduced to life in post-crisis America last August, when word came down that she and 1,000 of her fellow public employees would have to take a little unpaid vacation for a while. The county, it turned out, was more than $5 billion in debt — meaning that courthouses, jails and sheriff’s precincts had to be closed so that Wall Street banks could be paid.

The latest fright comes from Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. The city is considering seeking bankruptcy protection—as well as tax hikes and asset sales—to address $68 million in debt service payments due this year.

Harrisburg does not stand a chance at making its payments. The $68 million in debt service payments is four times what the city expects to raise through property taxes and $4 million more than the city’s entire operating budget.

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